(This essay was broadcast on WUWM’s Lake Effect program, 89.7, Milwaukee’s NPR affiliate on April 12, 2010. Listen to it here: ) Stories—you know, fiction, actual made-up stuff—are dead. I clicked off the last scene of Jersey Shore on my 52 inch flat-screen dual-quadrasonic surround-sound 5.1 plasma TV and began flipping through my Tivo’d shows […]
